A screw dislocation interacting with a piezoelectric bimaterial interface (Q1977236)

The authors investigate the electroelastic interaction between a screw dislocation and the interface of a linear piezoelectric bimaterial composed of two dissimilar, transversely isotropic piezoelectric media with respect to the poling direction. The two media are assumed to be perfectly bonded. Under such conditions, the main conclusions are that (i) the interface always repels the dislocation in the medium of lower shear modulus, as for the purely elastic case, and (ii) the interface may repel the dislocation in the medium with higher shear modulus due to the electromechanical coupling, which is different from the result for pure elasticity.